Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 84, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.235141
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- NSF [DMR-1005541, NSFC 11074140]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1005541] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Topological insulators in free fermion systems have been well characterized and classified. However, it is not clear in strongly interacting boson or fermion systems what symmetry-protected topological orders exist. In this paper, we present a model in a two-dimensional (2D) interacting spin system with nontrivial onsite Z(2) symmetry-protected topological order. The order is nontrivial because we can prove that the one-dimensional (1D) system on the boundary must be gapless if the symmetry is not broken, which generalizes the gaplessness of Wess-Zumino-Witten model for Lie symmetry groups to any discrete symmetry groups. The construction of this model is related to a nontrivial 3-cocycle of the Z(2) group and can be generalized to any symmetry group. It potentially leads to a complete classification of symmetry-protected topological orders in interacting boson and fermion systems of any dimension. Specifically, this exactly solvable model has a unique gapped ground state on any closed manifold and gapless excitations on the boundary if Z(2) symmetry is not broken. We prove the latter by developing the tool of a matrix product unitary operator to study the nonlocal symmetry transformation on the boundary and reveal the nontrivial 3-cocycle structure of this transformation. Similar ideas are used to construct a 2D fermionic model with onsite Z(2) symmetry-protected topological order.
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